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If a plane is having an emergency and needs to land sooner than planned, the pilot may have to dump fuel to lighten the aircraft for a safe landing. In the event of a crash landing, the risk of serious fire is greatly reduced if the fuel tanks are almost empty.

This video shows fuel being dumped from the jettison system in the left wing of an American Airlines Boeing 777-200. In this case it was a medical emergency.

and this KLM flight KL888 from Hongkong to Amsterdam on 25th Feb 2007 had to return to Hongkong because of a malfunctioning Krueger flap. 80,000kg of fuel was jettisoned!

“The 747-400 has a fuel jettison system to allow the airplane’s weight to be reduced quickly so that a safe landing can be made after an inflight emergency.” Boeing Airliner magazine

and

on January 1 2009, Air France flight 332 outbound from Paris to Boston u-turned and made its way back to Paris. Dumped fuel all because an unclaimed cellphone sparked fears of a bomb on board.

Deanna Durbin (born December 4, 1921)
is a Canadian singer and actress, most popular during the 30s and 40s.

Durbin is perhaps best known for her singing voice—a voice described variously as light but full, sweet, unaffected and artless. With the technical skill and vocal range of a legitimate lyric soprano, she performed everything from popular standards to operatic arias. Dame Sister Mary Leo in New Zealand was so taken with Durbin’s technique that she trained all her students to sing in this way. Sister Mary Leo produced a large number of famous sopranos including Dames Malvina Major and Kiri Te Kanawa, all of whom were said to sound like her. Wiki

Deanna was the favorite actress of Winston Churchill.

In the sixty years since leaving Hollywood, she has rarely even given an interview. In 1980, she sent a current photo of herself to Life Magazine….via

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